And today's hot take: a special f*** you to Maria Goretti's feast, but most especially to every priest who preaches 'she died protecting her chastity,' which means 'all of you who were raped/sexually abused aren't good enough, because you're not dead'. 1/
Go hang, you paedophiles & paedophile protectors. In the middle of every Goretti sermon, I want to scream, 'I was *5*, you motherf***ers!' And don't feed me the BS line about her forgiveness, a retrofit to deal w/ the blowback from later generations of women 2/
who looked at you & said, "This was all on Alessandro. Maybe he shouldn't have tried to rape her, just like y'all today need to stop blaming women for being raped & start blaming men who rape." I don't believe she forgave him, her death was murder, & her canonisation is a joke.
It's worse than that, it's *sick*. To lay that all on a *child*: how wonderful you died horrifyingly young, we're going to make you a martyr showing women & girls that they should die rather than lose their virginity/chastity, which we think is more valuable than their humanity.
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In my USA home, Dilip's films were on all weekend, ostensibly b/c he was my mother's favourite. A comment of hers made me wonder: "The girls were all 'Dilip, Dilip' when a film came out." I thought, "Wait, 'the girls' - not you?" @ProfSunnySingh@PSYfem timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/…
I came to love them, though I could never admit that of them all, it was 'Madhumati', the reincarnational love story, that I loved the most. That only made the odd appearance (once? twice?), while 'Naya Daur' was a regular guest.
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I was grateful for them because they were an oasis in an emotionally abusive family. My parents lost themselves in those films, almost as if they were in a fugue - and decades later, given what I now understand of Partition, I strongly suspect they were self-soothing. 3/